Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably Stokley v. State (1950), Patterson v. State (1918)
43 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Morris v. State · State ex rel. Attorney General v. Tally · McAnally v. State · Pierson v. State · Griffith v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A criminal conspiracy is a distinct, substantive offense, complete when the corrupt agreement is entered into. Such agreement is the very gist of the offense, and it is not necessary to a conviction for a conspiracy alone that any act should be done in pursuance of it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.